Oliver Kay

Manuel Pellegrini maintained this afternoon that he does not feel under pressure at Manchester City, claiming that his future will not hinge on whether he leads the team to a trophy this season. City will review their manager’s position at the end of the season, as has been standard practice under

The FA has caused agitation among the other home nations by unilaterally declaring its intention to send two teams to the Olympic football tournament in Rio de Janeiro next year. It emerged last night that, on his final day as FA general secretary five weeks ago, Alex Horne wrote to the national

They celebrated under the Wembley arch with the enthusiasm of a team who had reached their goal, but the message from the Chelsea dressing room last night was that the Capital One Cup would be the first of many trophies second time around under José Mourinho. That sense of heightening ambition

They celebrated under the Wembley arch with the enthusiasm of a team who had reached their goal, but the message from the Chelsea dressing room last night was that the Capital One Cup would be the first of many trophies second time around under José Mourinho. That sense of heightening ambition

The most searing comment on another week of woe for English clubs in Europe came from René Girard. Speaking about Monaco’s 3-1 victory away to Arsenal in the Champions League, the straight-talking Lille coach said: “To those who say the French league is s***, this proves that maybe there’s s

Harry Kane’s remarkable breakthrough season will continue with a Capital One Cup final appearance tomorrow, a full England debut next month and, if the FA has its way, an “immensely beneficial” trip to the European Under-21 Championship finals in June. Roy Hodgson, the England manager, has made

For Arsenal, this was an altogether more grave form of indignity on the Champions League stage. It is one thing to be outclassed by European football’s aristocracy, but quite another for the same old failings to leave them humbled on their own turf by the nouveaux-riches of Monaco. Monaco were

Richard Scudamore, the Premier League chief executive, accused Uefa last night of failing to stand up for European club football over the plan to move the Qatar World Cup in 2022 to winter. More than four years after its highly controversial decision to stage the 2022 tournament in Qatar, Fifa

There is at least one thing more stupid than a winter World Cup in Qatar: a summer World Cup in Qatar. That, of course, is what Fifa’s executive committee voted for on that fateful day in December 2010. Since then, it has been a question only of how much damage the decision would cause. It is an

There were moments at the Etihad Stadium last night when the divide between Manchester City and European football’s elite seemed to be growing wider. For much of the first half it resembled a chasm, such was the ease with which Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and the rest of Barcelona’s aristocrats